It’s time to slap on the sunscreen and head down to your nearest Microsoft Store to checkout the new Low Poly Summer animation. Enjoy your time on the beach with the Windows Phone characters playing volleyball or take to the wilderness and roast some marshmellows over an open flame.

Happy Holidays from the Microsoft store. Enjoy this season with a warm cup of hot cocoa and an extra large low poly animation that spans the entire length of the Microsoft store. From a Windows Phone Reindeer to ice skaters gliding across a frozen lake, this 57000 x 1080 pixel animation has lots of holiday cheer all wrapped up inside.

This theme combines the power of both Cinema 4D and After Effects. Thanks to the new partnership between the two apps this theme allows for Cinema 4D files to be directly imported into After Effects, creating a great pre-production and post production process. Making adjustments and changes couldn’t have been easier with the help of these two power house apps.

This panoramic motion graphic was created exclusively for the Tomb Raider Midnight Launch Party in the Microsoft store. On March 4 from 10p to 1am customers could walk into their local Microsoft store and grab a copy of the new Tomb Raider game as well as play against other customers in a fierece multiplayer match. For this concept I recreated the box art for the Tomb Raider game to stretch across the entire video wall in the Microsoft Stores. The final combined resolution of the video piece was 57000 x 1080 pixels.

Introducing the new Office 365 panoramic motion graphic created for the Microsoft Store’s enormous video wall. The 57,000+ pixel wide motion graphic showcases all of the newest features of Xbox Music. Head over to your nearest Microsoft Store and check out the new theme.

Introducing the new Xbox Music panoramic motion graphic created for the Microsoft Store’s enormous video wall. The 60,000+ pixel wide motion graphic showcases all of the newest features of Xbox Music. Head over to your nearest Microsoft Store and check out the new theme.

The brand new Windows Phone comes in different shapes, sizes, colors, and lets users personalize the look and feel of their Live Tiles to make a phone experience that is unique to their own personalities. The final combined resolution of the video piece was over 57,000 x 1080 pixels.

Meet the new Windows 8 video wall motion graphic. This large scale motion graphic piece was create to celebrate the release of the brand new operating system. The motion graphic piece walks through the life of Alison Brown and her family showcasing their custom Windows 8 tiles and interface. This piece also include a collection of beautiful panoramic images that fully immerse the customer in the Alison’s life.

The video wall in the store consists of multiple LCD monitors lined up together creating an extremely widescreen viewing experience for the audience. The final combined resolution of the video piece is over 60,000 wide and 1080 tall.

A new panoramic motion graphic created for the Microsoft Store’s video wall based on the new Internet Explorer 9 commercial. Just like the tv spot this motion piece is filled with bright flashes, catchy vibes, and lens flares as big as 10,000+ pixels wide!

A stylized 3d illustration created using the minimal amount of polygons. In this illustration toxic waste barrels mutate the local fish into giant mutant creatures that wreck havoc upon the nearby residents.

A large scale panoramic motion graphic piece created for the Windows 7 Step Up campaign for the Microsoft Store. For this video wall we wanted to capture the excitement and fun feeling created from the Windows commercial. To bring more depth and excitement to the hero section of the video wall I took the lifestyle photography and recreated the scene entirely in a 3D using Cinema 4D and projection mapping techniques. Each element in the scene was rendered with different masks to use in After Effects for the transitions. The transitions “curvy” feel were inspired by the curvy nature of the Window’s 7 logo.

Skype and Microsoft have come together once again to bring you a new and exciting theme for the MS Store video wall. Celebrating the release of Skype on the Windows Phone the new Skype theme showcases the many different ways you can use Skype on all your Window’s devices. Working along side Skype’s marketing team the new Skype theme features a new branding style along with exciting new animations that mirror the Window’s Phone app.

So I started playing around with Adobe Ideas the other day and I gotta say I think it’s starting to become one of my favorite iPad apps for sketching and illustrating. I think the biggest plus to this app is the fact that all the sketches are vector and I can import them into Photoshop or Illustrator with no loss of quality.

The new Star Wars Kinect game for Xbox removes the controller and brings the user into the Star Wars universe allowing them to act out all their favorite Jedi moves. For this concept I recreated the infamous Star Wars intro credits that stretch across the entire video wall in the Microsoft Stores.

Now’s the Time… to check out the new video wall theme at your local Microsoft store. The “Now’s the Time” video wall motion graphics were put together in just a few weeks using lots and lots of key frames and layers to create an 8 bit pixel animated look and feel.

The final combined resolution of the video piece was 57000 x 1080 pixels.

Within just three days I created a massive video wall theme to help celebrate one of the biggest first person shooter game’s 10 year anniversary. Complete with an animated Master Chief, the Halo theme takes the current marketing artwork and stretches it across six quads. Using various particles and distortion effects I created an animated sky asset to help blend the background stitching together as well as breath more life into the video wall piece. For the Xbox zones an ambient space scene was created making it versatile for all the Microsoft Store layouts as well as tie in a nice story element to the video wall theme.

Motion graphic piece I animated for the Microsoft Store’s panoramic video wall. The video wall in the store consists of multiple LCD monitors lined up together creating an extremely widescreen viewing experience for the audience.

Motion graphic piece I animated for the Microsoft Store’s panoramic video wall. The video wall in the store consists of multiple LCD monitors lined up together creating an extremely widescreen viewing experience for the audience.

Giant Mutant Creatures, once the world was a landscape of peace and tranquility. Until one day when a barrel of toxic waste grossly mutated the local wildlife into giant killer creatures, bent on wrecking havoc upon the inhabitants. Now it is a fight for these poor people to defend their once peaceful home against these toxic creatures!

Total Eclipse is a short animated cartoon directed, written, and animated by Ryan Boyle. It parodies a real life experience where a group of younger office workers were discussing what time they were going to go see the “Eclipse”.

A new set of Green Lantern doodles, this time creating a “what-if” scenario where a different character throughout history was chosen to be a Green Lantern. So what do you get? You get to see what it would be like if a viking or a pirate were chosen to join the intergalactic police force.

Fernbank NatureQuest is a new, immersive experience that turns kids into explorers, scientists and adventurers as they discover the many wonders of the natural world through hundreds of hands-on activities, live animal displays and engaging encounters.

The following montage contains various shots I worked on as a Compositor on the remake of the 1978 classic horror movie PIranha. Working on this movie gave me a chance to get my feet wet in Stereoscopic Compositing techniques in one of the opening shots.

A showcase of work I created for a series of educational videos commissioned by Full Sail University. This piece was created for the 3D Fundamentals course and covered topics like modeling, texturing, and animation in Maya.

A showcase of work I created for a series of educational videos commissioned by Full Sail University. This piece was created for the 3D Fundamentals course and covered topics like modeling, texturing, and animation in Maya.

A showcase of work I created for a series of educational videos commissioned by Full Sail University. This piece was created for the 3D Fundamentals course and covered topics like modeling, texturing, and animation in Maya.

A showcase of work I created for a series of educational videos commissioned by Full Sail University. This piece was created for the 3D Fundamentals course and covered topics like modeling, texturing, and animation in Maya.

A short animation I created within just 3 days for the Citrus Cel Animation festival held each year in Jacksonville, FL. It features two aging super villains who reminisce about the “good old days” of being a villain over a game of chess.

Breakdown of the visual effects work I created for the independent war film “the Silent G.I.” I was the Visual Effects Supervisor for the film and some of my responsibilities included modeling, texturing, lighting, 3d camera tracking, and compositing.